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MAKING CONTACT - a weekly international radio program

The Debt Treadmill:
Cyclical Poverty in the Third World

November 3, 1999

Heads-of-state, rock-stars, activists and many others have called for debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries of the Global South. On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at international debt, its causes, and why some are calling for the debts to be cancelled.

Featuring:

Njoki Njehu and Soren Ambrose, 50 Years is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice; Brian Ashley, Alternative Information and Development Center; Nunu Kidane, International Development Exchange; Seydina Senghor, Jubilee 2000; Camille Chalmers, PAPDA.

For more information:

50 Years is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
1247 E Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
202-463-2265
www.50years.org

Alternative Information and Development Center
P.O. Box 12943
Mowbray 7705
South Africa
+021685-1565 or +021685-1566; info@aidc.org.za
www.aidc.org.za

International Development Exchange
827 Valencia, #101
San Francisco, California 94110-1736
415-824-8384
www.idex.org

Jubilee 2000
P.O. Box 8614
New York, New York 10116
800-810-8789; fax: 212-234-2233
www.jubilee2000uk.org

PAPDA
c/o Marx Aristide
3415 Holmead Place, NW
Washington, DC 20010
202-588-1954; papda@haitinews.com